How Monetary Policy is Made: Two Canadian Tales

Matthias Neuenkirch Pierre L. Siklos (psiklos@wlu.ca)
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Matthias Neuenkirch Pierre L. Siklos: Wilfrid Laurier University, http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=758&ct_id=62
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Pierre Siklos and Matthias Neuenkirch

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Abstract: This paper examines the policy rate recommendations of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council (GC) and the C.D. Howe Institute’s (CDHI) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) since 2003. We find, first, that differences in the median recommendations between the MPC and the GC are persistent but small (i.e., 25 bps). The median MPC recommendation is based on a higher steady state real interest rate. However, the response of the MPC and the GC to output and inflation shocks are, for the most part, comparable. Second, we are also able to examine the individual recommendations for the MPC. Estimates of the determinants of consensus inside the MPC or disagreement with the GC yield some useful insights. For example, disagreements are more likely when rates are proposed to rise than at other times. Equally interesting is the finding that the Bank of Canada conditional commitment on the overnight rate in 2009-10 has a relatively larger restricting impact on the MPC’s median recommendation than the GC’s target rate.

Keywords: Bank of Canada; central bank communication; committee behaviour; monetary policy committees; shadow councils; Taylor rules. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E58 E61 E69 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2014-03-01, Revised 2014-03-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-cdm, nep-mac and nep-mon
Note: LCERPA Working Paper No. 2014-7
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